Since September 2006, Siemens has also offered a freeware 2D version named Solid Edge 2D Drafting.

The ordered modeling process begins with a base feature controlled by a 2D sketch, which is either a linear, revolved, lofted, or swept extrusion.

When editing, the model is "rolled back" to the point where the feature was created so that the user cannot try to apply constraints to geometry that does not yet exist.

In both ordered and synchronous mode, Solid Edge offers powerful, easy, yet stable modeling in hybrid surface/solid mode, where Rapid Blue technology helps to create complex shapes intuitively and easily.

Solid Edge integrates with Windows Indexing, SharePoint or Teamcenter to provide product lifecycle management.

These functions are based on Siemens Digital Industries Software's existing Femap and NX Nastran technologies.

From Solid Edge 2019 there were also computational fluid dynamics functions added from Mentor Graphics' FloEFD, and with Solid Edge 2020 Rigid Body Motion, transient dynamic analysis was added.